Improvement in beds and bed-bottoms



waited gieten J. WILLIAM C. PETERS AND WILLIAM A. LE ROW, OF UHIGAG, ILL-l- NDIS.

Letters Potent No. 108,622, dated October 2 5, 18?'6.

lMPFiOVENIENi"r iN BEDS AND BED-BOTTOMS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making par? of the sameA To all whom ii may eoncern:

Be it. known that we, J. WILLIAM C. Permis and WILLrAM A. Le Row, of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented n new and improved Metallic Spring-Bottom Hospital- Bed with Adjustable Boister; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompany ing drawing and to the letterel of reference marked thereon, making n part of this specification.

llhe nature of onr improvements :1nd inventions consist in the following features, to wir:

lfgure l is n top view.

Figure 2 is n side sectional view.

To enable others skilled in the nrt to :mike :ind use nur inventions and improvements, we will proeeed to dencribe their construction and operation, and iin: inode of applying the some.

i The wire interwoven hed-bottoni, now in generni nee, is stretched upon n frame, composed o sidepieees and ond-pieces, of the peculiar and improved simpre shown in fig. l ofthe accompanying drawing.

The end-pieces a. are let into the ends otside-1 ieees and held in place, first, hy n screw-bolt running through all from top to bottom, and princpniy hy ineens of' the inside ongle irons c, which herir on he onder edge :md inside of .side pieces, and on tire nnder edge and top side of end pieces. said irons having n quarter-turn between said hearing surfaces, thus `minding all together with greet iirinness, Snid irons to he retained in plneo by screws or rivers.

The wire-webbing o' stretched over seid freine, :ind hearing upon the upper edges of the hood and footpieces, is retained in position hy n stoet botten, serewed over the ends thereof' to the Said heeft and i'oot-pieoee, und the jointor seam oiifeetunlly closed by the nso of Lidia-robber pecking or other composition, or cement packing e, thus eectnnlly excluding vermin.

The adjustable holster j' is to be of Same wire-wel)- bing, in iframe of three sides of the width of the bed, and in height about two-fi fills of the length thereof, eo plot-ed that when Tint it comes even with the head of' the hed-bottom.

The" ends of the side-pieces oi bolster-fiume hinge or giro?, on the top of metallic standards g, springing from the sidwpieces of bed-frame at the height oi' the Snrfnee of the hed when nl; its natural level.

The holster is to be raised either by hand or ily menne of' a. windlnss, la, shaft running across under the webbing from one side to the other, rotated by ineens of n common hed-wrench or key, a', ond held in place hy n howl, l, and ratchet-Wheel m, which operates n hand ruiming around :fr pniiejr, o, fixed on the inside of l1end-piece of hed-frame, and made fast to the transverse connecting-rod p, oft-he lower ends of two metallic nrcs is, attached to each side of the bolster-frame, which serre to steady it :ind koop said bolster at any desired elevation by means of said cxterior edges of Enid aree boing toothed and retained by pnwls placed on the hond-piece of the bed-fratrie.

what we particularly claim as our inventions and improvements, mid desire to secure hy Letters Pntont, is-

Tho hed-frame, with snituhio ongle-irons combined with weren metallic wire, the wire being set in rui hor or nement nt the ends. nn adjustable bolster, regulated by n rod, and pnwl, and shaft, and cortis ne and for ille purpose specified.

J. "ILLAM lli'lll. [in WHJAM A. LE RCX?. {Lt s. 'tn esses:

Honrvrro L. WAIT, Envir: A. Jonson. 

